
Member of Technical Staff at @modal
San Francisco, CA
Joined September 2025
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π±π±π± this is obnoxiously cool
Replying to @danintheory
The result in mathematics concerns harmonic analysis.
Our models produced a proof of the local smoothing conjecture in every dimension and therefore also resolve the Kakeya conjecture and Steinβs restriction conjecture in all dimensions. The new proof is based on a novel auxiliary partial differential equation.
We obtained our AI output, and then we reached out to an expert to discuss forming a collaboration around this result. Following their recommendation, we decided to release the AI output publicly, following the same strategy for this result as our October 6th, 2026 release. We have released both an AI natural language output writeup produced by our models and a Lean proof in our public GitHub repository.
github.com/openai/math/blob/β¦
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"The broader takeaway from these experiments is that if you keep your GPUs busy, for example by running several experiments at once, Spindle offers much better price-performance than closed-source APIs"
Tinker changed how people do post-training. We're big fans, and so are many of the teams we work with. But as those teams scale up, they keep raising the same two problems: per-token pricing gets expensive quickly, and youβre limited to the models and features the provider decides to support.
We think a good API deserves more than one implementation.
Today we're releasing Spindle, an open-source, Tinker-compatible training server that runs in your Modal workspace. Your existing Tinker scripts run unchanged, and because you own the server, you pay for GPU time instead of tokens.
Modal magic, now for training!
Performant reinforcement learning is a hard infrastructure and research problem. Weβve recently made on-demand multi-node clusters available and showed how to take advantageous of heterogeneous sampling compute. But there still exists the need for high-fidelity environments, clear and robust reward functions, and tuned training recipes that actually work.
Most teams are actually nearly there! With an agent harness deployed in production and evals/agent traces collected from that deployment, you just need an easy way to start training your data. So we built a training library that gives you the building blocks, tuned defaults, and observability you need for easy, production-grade LLM training.
Itβs available now. All it takes is a prompt.
Finally digitized notes on *algorithmic information theory* (raymondtana.github.io/ait-noβ¦) from my PhD dissertation... I think of them like the backdrop to what I really want to write about:
the connection between information theory <-> ML <-> computability theory ... more soon(ish!)
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365 days ago i moved to sf, and i thank myself every day for making the leap in this city of contradictions
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Should be a good time! I'll talk about the time-travel filesystem @erikdunteman and I have been working on
Our second meetup in SF is next week and it's going to be sick:
@glcst from @tursodatabase
@haakamaujla from @agentmail
@pretermath from @modal
Join if you're around!
durable (and rewindable) state is an obvious inevitability, but it's undergoing active development and requires feedback from the people who are going to most benefit from it
Replying to @erikdunteman
This is still very much experimental, but I'm convinced that durability is the most important feature for agents in the cloud.
If you have long-running agents, or aggressively branching RL rollouts, I'd love to buy you a coffee to learn more. DMs open!
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so many SWE projects involve implementing a protocol. but some protocols are better-specified than others. and better specs => easier verification => better for agents. i think i want a protocol-protocol for declaring what makes a good protocol
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I'm on a perpetually-nerdsniped-before-I-can-do-anything-about-the-previous-nerdsniping loop.
why does manim distract me from kolmogorov complexity which distracted me from sparse auto encoders which distracted me from lean which distracted me from scheduling algorithms :(
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Great use of @modal Sandboxes: persisting state for user sessions, with some clever image management for achieving shorter boot times
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Idk if anyone here cares about Zig, but I wrote a comprehensive mathematical treatment of how memory allocation and alignment works for types in Zig (it applies to other C-compatible languages, too).
raymondtana.github.io/math/pβ¦
I added a new recipe for "Candied yams" to Gramma's cookbook! π§π΅
cookwithbutter.com/?input=Caβ¦
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